18 Jul 2017 3:09 pm
He sought info about the Clinton campaign from a notorious money launderer?Termin8tor » 18 Jul 2017 12:30 pm » wrote:I mean, it's just terribly morally reprehensible that Donald Jr. sought information about Clinton campaign crimes, right?
8th person at Trump Tower meeting identified.
The eighth person who attended the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower is a senior vice president at the company founded by the Russian oligarch who initiated the meeting, CNN has learned.
Ike Kaveladze's identity was confirmed by his attorney, Scott Balber.
And yes, it is morally reprehensible that he sought info from a foreign government and an adversary at that.Laundering Of Money Seen as 'Easy'
A Congressional inquiry has found that it is ''relatively easy'' for foreigners to hide their identities and form shell companies here that can launder money through American banks.
In a a nine-month inquiry that subpoenaed bank records, the investigators found that an unknown number of Russians and other East Europeans moved more than $1.4 billion through accounts at Citibank of New York and the Commercial Bank of San Francisco.
The accounts had been opened by Irakly (Ike) Kaveladze, who immigrated to the United States from Russia in 1991, according to Citibank and Mr. Kaveladze.
He set up more than 2,000 corporations in Delaware for Russian brokers and then opened the bank accounts for them, without knowing who owned the corporations, according to the report by the General Accounting Office, which has not been made public.
The report said the banks had failed to conduct any ''due diligence'' into identifying the owners of the accounts.
Late this afternoon, Citibank sent a 15-page letter to the G.A.O., saying that it had closed the accounts after being contacted by G.A.O. investigators earlier this year.
Of course the Trumps don't view Russia as an adversary seeing as how it looks like they got a whole lot of money from them.